Club affiliation and athlete registration also form part of the UKA Rules for competition. Eligibility to enter competitions as a club or individual depends on affiliation (club) and registration (individual) status. Please see www.uka.org.uk/competitions/rules for full information.

The ability to have a say on how the sport is run and funded in a way that reflects your fundamental importance to the sport

Opportunities for you, (and at times your club or your school) to get involved in exclusive events and experiences in association with British Athletics

Your registration fee helps make a difference to many areas of the sport

Exclusive offers - We work with partners including New Balance, InterContinental Hotels Group, and AfterShokz to provide registered athletes with exclusive offers and vouchers for money off.
Some of these can be accessed via the benefits page at www.englandathletics.org/registered-athlete. Others are sent by email so ensure your contact details are up to date and you have opted to receive information!

Entry in the Great Run Club Challenge competition in the Great Run Events

Becoming a Registered Athlete
As an athlete it is straight forward to become a registered athlete with England Athletics.

You must be a member of a club that is affiliated to England Athletics.

Your club is then responsible for registering you with England Athletics. For the affiliation year from 1 April 2017 is £14. The charge is often paid by the club member alongside their club membership subscription and many clubs state this when publicising the membership fee. (For 2018-19, from 1 April 2018, the fee will be £15)

Once England Athletics have received your details from your club, and payment for your registration, we will allocate you a Unique Registration Number (URN).

Membership Services submit details of registered athletes to our registration card printers every two weeks. Your England Athletics registration card should be received no later than three weeks from that submission. Athletes who have had a card and URN from previous years should retain that.

Your Registration number will be on the card that you are sent, it will also be available from the person at your club who keeps your details up to date on the secure club portal.

Once registered your URN stays the same from year-to-year. However, your club must have made an up-to-date payment on your registration for your registration to remain active. If payment is not received your registration will become inactive.

If you experience any problems in receiving your URN / Athletics Card, you should contact –

England Athletics, UKA and event organisers work in partnership to ensure that checks on England Athletics athlete registrations are carried out. Road races are able to use a ‘competition checker’ as well as race entries taken through runbritain automatically being checked for a valid England Athletics registration.

Please ensure you cooperate with your club to ensure your athlete registration is kept up to date and that you are eligible to compete

Checks on athletes also involve use of Power of 10 to check that those athletes featuring in results submitted to Power of 10 hold the appropriate England Athletics registration.

Changing clubs within England Athletics is now done online. The online application is for changing clubs within England only. If you are transferring to a club elsewhere in the United Kingdom you will need to complete the paper applications from the respective Home Nations Governing bodies. You can find instructions on how to do this in the file Change of First Claim Club 2017 (260k PDF) on the right hand side / bottom of this page.

Our Athletes section contains the Eligibility Decisions for each month. Also on the right is an application form which should be completed by those athletes wishing to compete for a new Club in a discipline for which their First Claim Club does not affiliate.